YouTube is alerting creators about a novel deceptive try deception that trys to lure victims using an AI-created video of its CEO Neal Mohan. The counterfeit video has been splitd personally with engagers and claims YouTube is making changes to its monetization policy in an try to steal their credentials, according to an proclaimment on Tuesday.
“YouTube and its engageees will never try to communicate you or split increateation thraw a personal video,” YouTube says. “If a video is splitd personally with you claiming to be from YouTube, the video is a deceptive try deception.”
In recent weeks, there have been increates floating around Reddit about deceptions aenjoy to the one depictd by YouTube. One engager shelp they getd an email saying an account called “Notification for YouTube Creators” splitd a personal video with them and teached them to download a harmful file. Another noticed they getd a personal video from “Channel for Creators,” which asked them to concur to a novel monetization policy on a counterfeit DocuSign site. In both of these cases, the email came from no-answer@youtube.com.
“Many phishers actively center Creators by trying to find ways to impersonate YouTube by utilizeing in-platcreate features to join to harmful satisfied,” YouTube inserts. This benevolent of deception isn’t finishly novel, as one Reddit engager spotted a convey inantcounterfeit video of Mohan going around in 2023. If you get one of these counterfeit videos, you can increate it on YouTube’s website.
